Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Heidi Montag

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Heidi Montag became a reality star as a result of her role on the MTV series The Hills. Since then, she and her husband, Spencer Pratt, have desperately tried to extend their 15 minutes of fame.

Heidi came to Los Angeles from Colorado and got a job working at a Los Angeles PR firm. Unfortunately, the pressure of Hollywood got to her. Heidi felt presssure to look "perfect" and thought bettering her body would help her reach fame.

After The Hills, Heidi tried to start a music career. She failed miserably and solidified her reputation as "becoming famous for nothing". Heidi continued her career, with help of her husband, by participating on the celebrity reality show "I'm a celebrtiy..get me out of here!". The duo left ealry in the show and spent the entire time complaining. Recently, Heidi has been on the covers of magazines and doing interviews about her plastic surgery. in 2010, Heidi underwent 10 platic surgeries in one day. She had previously had a nose and boob job. She not only re-did those procedures, but also had liposuction, a chin job, an eyebrow lift, botox injections and at least three other procedures. After the surgeries, Heidi looked like a completely different person. Heidi defended herself and her surgeries, but just recently admitted she has regrets about the surgery.

At first, Heidi's life may have seemed like a PR nightmare, but that may not be the case. Although Heidi has not done much to become famous, she is famous and is in magazines and talked about on television shows all the time. She has extended her 15 minutes of fame past what anyone expected. She did damage to her career when she got 10 plastic surgery procedures done and changed her look completely, but coming forward saying she regrets her decision will get her sympathy and possibly give back some credit to her name. Heidi could probably continue her career if she ended the plastic surgeries, stayed away from husband (possibly ex-husband) Spencer Pratt and actually worked at her career instead of expecting fame for being pretty. What will become of Heidi Montag is still an alluring question, even to those that do not like her.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Tiger Woods

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Tiger Woods, known as one of the best golfers of all time, has recently tarnished his name because of infidelity to his wife, Elin. Woods was married to a beautfil model, had 2 kids and a great career, but that was not good enough for him. He cheated repeatedly with many women. The scandal of his affaris was one of the biggest stories of 2009/2010.

After the scandal, Woods first response was coming clean...to a sex addiction. He blamed his mistakes and infidelities on an insatiable appetite for sex, a laughable defense. The self-proclaimed "addiction" negatively affected Woods' reputation in the scandal. It appeared as if Woods was not going to take responsibility for his own actions. This proved to be true. Woods continued to use the "sex addiciton" excuse and did do a couple short interviews. In the interviews, however, he said nothing of substance. He did not seem genuine and he should have just apologized and owned up to what he did. Unfortunately, that never happened. Woods' wife, Elin, divorced him and he lost what once was a great sports reputation. Although everyone makes mistakes, a public figure making excuses never bodes well. Woods should have owned up to his mistakes from the very beginning and not continue to make PR mistakes. It seems his PR team either was not providing him with good advice, or he was not listening to them. Either way, there is a definite possibility Woods' reputation will never be the same.